Liebeslieder Walzer (ballet)

Liebeslieder Walzer is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine based on the Brahms' Liebeslieder Walzer, op. 52, and their sequel Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65.

The premier of the ballet took place on Tuesday, 22 November, 1960, New York, at the City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with mise en scène by David Hays and costumes by Karinska. The duo pianists were Louise Sherman and Robert Irving and the singers Angeline Rasmussen, Mitzi Wilson, Frank Poretta and Herbert Beattie.

Scenario

The musicians and dancers appear on stage together in period costumes. The dancers wear formal evening dress and the women dancing slippers during the first set of eighteen waltzes in a cozy ballroom; after a brief lowering of the curtain they dance the next fourteen waltzes under a starry sky, the women in calf-length tulle skirts and pointe shoes. They leave the stage two by two and return in pairs in original costume to listen to the last waltz.

Casts

original

NYCB revivals

2009 Spring

2010 Winter

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 first time in rôle

Film

Videography and DVD

Television

  • 1961 CBC Montreal, L'Heure du Concert
  • 1973 RM Productions
  • 2004 French television Violette et Mr. B excerpt
  • 2004 PBS Live from Lincoln Center: Balanchine 100 excerpt
  • 2004 French television Violette et Mr. B excerpt

See also

Articles

Reviews

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